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· Private foundation
THE GINGER E AND ROBERT D WALLACE FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$70k
Granted FY2024
15
Grants
3
Communities
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of THE GINGER E AND ROBERT D WALLACE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
musuemartsymphony
2019
youth symphony
2020
youth symphony
2021
youth symphonyarts
2022
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2023
food
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 15 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$8,000
- NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$7,000
- OGDEN RESCUE MISSION$6,000
- UTAH FOOD BANK$6,000
- UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA$5,000
- BEAR LAKE VALLEY HEALTH FDN$5,000
- MALIHEH FREE CLINIC$5,000
- THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION$5,000
- UTAH YOUTH ORCHESTRA ENSEMBLE$5,000
- ICA SAN DIEGO$5,000
- NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH$5,000
- UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
- FOREVER BALBOA PARK$2,000
- MINGLE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM$2,000
- ATHENEUM MUSIC AND ARTS LIB$1,000
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$426k · 33 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else
33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
33
25
Total granted
$426k
$77k
Still filing today
33%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CultureReligionEducationHealthInternationalOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MFMALIHEH FREE CLINIC7× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +35%
- FOFRIENDS OF BALBOA PARK8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +409%
- TSTHE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- NHNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $10k
- NHNEIGHBRHOOD HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- ECEAST COUNTY SYMPHONYone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
San Diego Museum of Art
To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.
Arts & Culture
2
San Diego Opera Association
The mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community engagement and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as part of its…
Arts & Culture
3
San Diego Ballet
Excite, entertain and enrich diverse audiences.
Unclassified
4
San Diego Civic Youth Ballet
To provide the youth of san diego with an opportunity to study, understand and appreciate, through education and participation, the art of ballet, and to enrich the cultural life of the community.
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5
San Diego County Bar Foundation
Grants to non-profits that provide access to justice to underserved in San Diego County.
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6
Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra
To enrich our community by creating powerful musical experiences performed with passion and excellence, and by providing indispensable music education and community engagement.
Arts & Culture
7
Balboa Park Conservancy
Balboa Park Conservancy provided expertise, advocacy and resources to envision, enhance and sustain Balboa Park (the "Park") for all visitors in partnership with the City of San Diego and in collaboration with other organizations in the…
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8
Socal Symphony Society
Presentation of symphony orchestra concerts in Culver City, Marina del Rey and the Los Angeles area
Arts & Culture
9
Uc San Diego Foundation
To advocate and raise private support for the university of california san diego, for the purpose of its research, teaching and public service mission.
Education
10
Bach Collegium San Diego
The mission of bach collegium san diego engages audiences with accessible, historically informed performances and educational programs featuring repertoire from the renaissance, baroque and early classical eras.
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11
San Diego Food System Alliance
The mission of the San Diego Food System Alliance is to cultivate a healthy, sustainable, and just food system in San Diego County. We envision vibrant community food systems rooted in justice and sustainability, where everyone has…
Food & Nutrition
12
San Diego State University Foundation
To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Campanile Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St Vincent De Paul. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$370,500Human Services$47,000Health$35,000Religion$16,000Arts & Culture$15,000International$13,000Education$6,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MALIHEH FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT de PAUL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BALBOA PARK ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds EAST COUNTY YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
The Conrad Prebys FoundationCA15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE GINGER E AND ROBERT D WALLACE FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 201054591 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Ginger E and Robert D Wallace Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Ginger E and Robert D Wallace Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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